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Hilda.
Yes, I should say you must be. If you could only cease thinking about the two little children
Solness.
[Slowly.] The two little children—they are not so easy to forget, Hilda.
Hilda.
[Somewhat uncertainly.] Do you still feel their loss so much—after all these years?
Solness.
[Looks fixedly at her, without replying.] A happy man you said
Hilda.
Well, now, are you not happy—in other respects?
Solness.
[Continues to look at her.] When I told you all this about the fire—h'm
Hilda.
Well?
Solness.
Was there not one special thought that you—that you seized upon?
Hilda.
[Reflects in vain.] No. What thought should that be?
SOLNESS.
[With subdued emphasis.] It was simply and solely by that fire that I was enabled to build homes for
